Johannes Cothmann

Johannes Cothmann , also: Cottmannus (* August 24 (?) 1595 in Herford ; † October 6, 1650 in Rostock ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

The son of the canon in Herford, Ludwig Cothmann, first attended the grammar school in Herford and in 1612 the grammar school in Osnabrück , and in 1615 began studying at the University of Gießen . Here he had attended the lectures by Balthasar Mentzer the Elder , Johannes Winckelmann (theologian) and Justus Feuerborn (1587–1656) for four years . In 1619 he moved to the University of Rostock . In 1625 he was appointed professor of theology in Rostock and gained on the orders of the Duke Johann Albrecht II. Of Mecklenburg at the University of Wittenberg on May 2, 1626 at Balthasar Meisner , the licentiate in theology.

After he had also visited Leipzig and Jena, he returned to Rostock, where he took up the second princely professorship in theology on July 24, 1626. He was involved in the disputes of the Lutheran orthodoxy of the time and rose to the first princely professorship in theology in 1633. For financial reasons, received his doctorate in theology under Jakob Martini on July 15, 1634 in Wittenberg . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the Rostock University. He was dean of the theological faculty several times and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters 1627, 1633, 1639, 1641, 1644, 1650 .

Works

Destructionem fundamenti Papatus.
Defensionem de matrimoni comprivignorum. Rostock 1638
Refutationem resposi opposite. Rostock
Duellum eucharisticum. Rostock 1638

literature

Cothmann, Joannes. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 6, Leipzig 1733, column 1352.
Otto Carsten Krabbe: From the ecclesiastical and scientific life of Rostock. Verlag Gustav Schlawitz, Berlin, 1863, ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Registration of Johannes Cothmann in the Rostock matriculation portal
^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg, 1934, p. 383
↑ cf. Matriculation of the University of Rostock

personal data
SURNAME	Cothmann, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cottmannus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: August 24, 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herford
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1650
Place of death	Rostock

[1] Registration of Johannes Cothmann in the Rostock matriculation portal

[2] Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg, 1934, p. 383

[3] . Matriculation of the University of Rostock